Welting boots and shoes



(No Model.)

. R. D. TUCKER & J, H. ANTHOINB.

W-ELTING BOOTS AND SHOES.

Patented Max .1. 28

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROLLIN D. TUCKER AND JOSEPH H. ANTHOINE, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNORS TOSYLVESTER C. FAY, OF SOUTHBOBOUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

WELTING BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,474, dated Marchas, 1882.-

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that we, ROLLIN D.TUGKER and JOSEPH H.ANTHOINE, ofBoston,ofthe county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Welting Boots or Shoes; and we do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figures 1 and 2 aretransverse sections, on an enlarged scale, of the two portions or piecesof the upper ot' a boot or shoe and their welt arranged and applied inaccordance with our invention, the nature of which is defined in theclaim hereinafter presented.

In carrying out our said invention we double or fold the welt uponitself, in manner as shown at O in Fig. 1, and arrange it between thetwo pieces A B of the upper and secure it thereto by sewing goingthrough it and them, in manner as shown at a. Ordinary welts have butone thickness of the material between the parts connected to them; butwith ourimprovement there are not only two thicknesses of the materialbetween such parts, but the welt is in one piece, folded at its middle,which not only makes in most cases a better finish, but one which willcause the welt to wear to better advantage, it not requiring to berounded by a 0 tool or cutter on its projecting edge. The two portionsor laps c cof the welt we cut ofi' even with the next adjacent edges ofthe pieces A B, and we turn such portions down across such edges andupon the pieces A B, in manner as 5 shown in Fig. 2, and stitch eachportion or lap c to its piece A or B by sewing going through them, asshown at 1), thereby producing a strong connection of the welt and upperpieces and covering the inner edges of the said pieces 40 and greatlyimproving the finish of the whole, especially when the welt is of muchthinner stock than the adjacent parts A B, connected to it. In somecases we chamfer off the welt at its edges,in order to improve itsappearance,

5 as well as for other purposes.

Application filed January 23, 1882. (No model.)

There-is a material difference between our improvementand the modeofwelting as shown in the United States Patent No. 177,660, for in oursthe welt is not pressed down and folded upon the outer surface of thequarters and sewed thereto, such welt by our method having its laps c 0turned across the next adjacent edges of the pieces A and B, and nextstitched to the said pieces. So our mode of welting differs from thatshown in the United States Patent No. 228,007, wherein the two piecesconnected by the welt are first fastened thereto by two separate rangesor lines of sewing, there being one of such ranges to each of the saidpieces, the laps of the welt not being sewedtogether, whereas in ourimprovement one range of sewing only is employed in first securing thepieces A and B to the welt G, such single range going through the lapsof the welt and each of the two pieces, and connecting all of them, thelaps of the welt subsequently being bent over and down upon the pieces Aand B and sewed to them.

What we claim as our invention in welt'ing the upper of a shoe or bootis as follows:

The'welt 0, arranged and combined with the pieces A B, substantially inthe manner as set forth, such welt being folded,and placed be: tween thesaid pieces and connected thereto by a row of stitches, 01, extendingthrough them, the said pieces, and the two laps of the welt, and suchlaps being subsequently folded over the next adjacent ends of andagainst the said pieces, and further connected to such pieces by rows ofstitches b 1), arranged with So and going through them and the laps, asrepresented.

ROLL'IN 1). TUCKER. JOSEPH H. ANTHOINE.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

